July For Loki Using 30 Days Of Deity Devotion Prompts, Day 25 A Time When This Deity Has Refused To Help

July for Loki using 30 Days of Deity Devotion prompts, Day 25 • A time when this deity has refused to help

I don’t usually ask Loki for help, as my previous post demonstrates. I pray for his guidance, instead. I ask him to show me the way, to inspire me, to enlighten me, and thus far he’s never denied me his blessing. Which doesn’t mean I ask him silly things, of course, but in my experience he’s not one to refuse to guide those who need his help. His help may lead to difficult steps, for sure, and he often encourages us to face our worst fears - and our inner selves, which can be even more frightening. But he’s there for us, rest assured.

Art: Loki the Shifter by samflegal on DeviantArt

I took a nap and dreamed Loki was playing the fiddle and singing a drinking song with the message of, "The roads we have to travel tomorrow are long with lots of bad weather, but right now we are here together and drunk and that's what matters most right now."

It might sound kind of silly on paper, but it was incredibly comforting.

Agreed.

Every photo i have ever seen of Simon and Garfunkel they look like your “bachelor” uncle and his “roommate” of 12 years

i feel like this is a hatecrime

July for Loki using 30 Days of Deity Devotion prompts, Day 27 • Worst misconception about Loki that you have encountered

Too many to count! xD

What troubles me the most is probably the superficiality with which some describe him, reducing him to either a merely evil entity, or to the court jester of Ásgarðr. Yes, he can be mischievous; yes, he can be a bad guy; yes, he can be a jokester; but he has MANY faces, and some of those to me are more prominent than those he’s most (in)famous for. He's fun, he's loving, he's wise, he's a warrior in many ways… There's a lot to discover about Loki, and I wish people would stop misjudging him - or maybe not. Maybe that’s the way it should be, after all. Maybe some are destined to stay on the surface of things, without ever going deeper.

Art: The Unlucky Family by Hellanim on DeviantArt

July for Loki, Day 31 • The End

Yay for me, and for all of you reading my posts of July for Loki!

It's been relatively hard to keep the focus for 30 days straight, following 30 Days of Deity Devotion prompts; to write briefly and hopefully not too boringly about matters that would deserve pages and pages each was not easy. But it was good fun too, and a way to connect with my patron god even more deeply, which is always a good thing.

One of the services I've been asked to perform for Loki by Loki himself is to talk about him, speaking my own truth about the way I know him. Trust me, this is tough for me, since I used to be a pretty secretive person about my whole spiritual sphere. But hey, now this is part of my path, and it's a way to honor him, so that's why I felt this July for Loki was the right thing to do, the way I did it, after all.

The conclusion to my July for Loki will be simple: I send firey blessings to y'all, and may Lughnasadh bring you nothing but marvelous gifts! 🖤

Pic: Laughing Fox by Paul Ward